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Who is Mike Johnson, the newly elected House speaker?
CBS News ^ | OCTOBER 25, 2023 / 2:01 PM | BY CAROLINE LINTON & Melissa Quinn

Posted on 10/25/2023 11:46:55 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

He should release ALL J6 footage before nightfall.


21 posted on 10/25/2023 12:16:39 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: cowboyusa
The marxists are crying on twitter, it’s beautiful.

Isn't it? :)

22 posted on 10/25/2023 12:17:33 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Demons scream when light appears.


23 posted on 10/25/2023 12:18:37 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: eyeamok
He should release ALL J6 footage before nightfall.

C'mon. This type of change takes a little time. He has to settle into the roll.

He should release ALL J6 footage before the end of the month nightfall.

That would be good enough for me.

24 posted on 10/25/2023 12:21:04 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: Red Badger

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1717206563138441452

@DC_Draino
Remember when Mike Johnson called for Pelosi to be arrested?

The FBI raided Trump’s house for some documents, but Pelosi rips up official archive docs & nothing happens

Happy to support
@RepMikeJohnson
for Speaker if he’s bringing this type of heat


25 posted on 10/25/2023 12:24:25 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: All

There is only one metric.

Refuse all CRs that bundle Ukraine money. Period.

Part of that can be not to let any Ukraine money legislation reach the floor of the House unless there is overwhelming conference support.

That’s it. It’s a simple procedure.


26 posted on 10/25/2023 12:27:42 PM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: cowboyusa
Johnson has a lifetime TNA score of 72%. Jim Jordan was at 82% so we're 10 points off. A hell of a lot better than McCarthy at 52%. You can see Johnson's info here: https://thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/legislator/j000299/

SHARE AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN A HELL OF A LOT WORSE!

27 posted on 10/25/2023 12:29:21 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Red Badger

The wisdom of the congress critter herd?

Seems like he may be a good choice.


28 posted on 10/25/2023 12:32:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: erlayman

It is maybe a case of the RINOS only voted for him because they are all fed up with this process and wanted it over.

The RINOS all admitted it, they only voted against Jordan to “punish” Gaetz and the rebels


29 posted on 10/25/2023 12:35:50 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: cowboyusa
The marxists are crying on twitter, it’s beautiful.

If that's true then I'm behind him 100%

30 posted on 10/25/2023 12:54:22 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: pookie18
Let’s see if he can deflect the lobbyists that will storm his office...

He should arrange "confidential" meetings with lobbyists & have James O'Keefe record all of them so people can see just how corrupt the system really is.

31 posted on 10/25/2023 1:03:36 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: pierrem15

That’s a good plan!


32 posted on 10/25/2023 1:06:10 PM PDT by pookie18 (You don’t have to be high on crack to enjoy Pookie’s Toons! - Tell It Right)
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To: Red Badger
Welcome Mike Johnson You Bayou Baby

The fight was well worth it. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

33 posted on 10/25/2023 1:09:59 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Red Badger

Despite rino posturing about not being told what to do by constituents, they obviously caved, and voted for this guy to avoid being primaried. Hopefully, they’ll be primaried, anyway.


34 posted on 10/25/2023 1:27:22 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Red Badger

Has he voted generally to the left or to the right of McCarthy?


35 posted on 10/25/2023 1:28:27 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Red Badger; All
Thank you for referencing that article Red Badger.

"The brief claimed that the officials and courts in each of the battleground states unconstitutionally usurped the power granted to state legislators by changing election rules in 2020. The Supreme Court rejected the request, saying it lacked legal standing [??? emphasis added]."


Constitutional problems (imo) with the Supreme Court's argument of no legal standing concerning allegations of problems with 2020 elections include the following.

Just as with Pence and the J6 Congress, the Court seemingly likewise ignored problems with both state compliance with 12th Amendment (electoral vote rules), also allegations of problems with state compliance with the 14th Amendment's Section 2, that section a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred.

Regarding 12A, Pence and Congress possibly felt pressured to accept Biden's alleged stolen electoral votes ASAP (déjà vu Pelosi ramming unconstitutional Obamacare imo) to prevent further public scrutiny of that amendment because the political party-pirated state governments have not been complying with that amendment for a long time imo.

For example, the states surrendered their power to make so-called state "winner take all" laws for electoral votes when they ratified that amendment imo.

In fact, despite desperate Democratic hypocritical "all votes count" mantra, Justice Joseph Story had explained that when political parties divide a state's electoral votes, doing so weakens a state's electoral votes for each candidate, similarly to when a state's federal senators vote yes and no on an issue, effectively cancelling each other's votes.

"In case of any party divisions in a state, it may neutralize its whole vote [emphasis added], while all the other states give an unbroken electoral vote." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 2, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Commentaries on the Constitution 3, 1833."

Regarding the Section 2 of 14A penalty concerning vote-counting fraud, consider the zero tolerance wording of that clause that screams for the feds to investigate allegations of vote-counting fraud.

Consider that ballot box tampering effectively weakens the constitutionally enumerated voting power of qualified citizen voters imo.

In fact, if this were a better world, the federal government should be warning the states before every election that the feds will be darkening their doorway to investigate complaints about vote-counting problems.

Getting back to the Supreme Court arguing no standing regarding state v. state alleged election problems, consider the Constitution's Article III, Section 2, Clause 1 (3.2.1) which constitutionally enumerates that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in state v. state cases.

"Article III, Section 2, Clause 1: The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States [emphasis added];--between a State and Citizens of another State; (See Note 10)-- between Citizens of different States, --between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects."

Regarding 3.2.1, Justice Joseph Story had indicated that the original colonies had given the power to hear disagreements disagreements between the colonies to the confederate government to ultimately help prevent the disagreement from escalating to the collapsing of that government.

But most importantly, Story had noted that the states had inherited through 3.2.1 the power for state v. state cases to be heard by the Supreme Court for any reason whatsoever [emphasis added] (my words), the Court's argument of no standing regarding allegations of election arguably wrongly ignoring the intentions of the drafters of the Constitution for 3.2.1 imo.

"§ 1674. Under the confederation, authority was given to the national government, to hear and determine, (in the manner pointed out in the article,) in the last resort, on appeal, all disputes and differences between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction, or any other cause whatsoever [emphasis added]. Before the adoption of this instrument, as well as afterwards, very irritating and vexatious controveries existed between several of the states, in respect to soil, jurisdiction, and boundary; and threatened the most serious public mischiefs. Some of these controversies were heard and determined by the court of commissioners, appointed by congress. But, notwithstanding these adjudications, the conflict was maintained in some cases, until after the establishment of the present constitution.

§ 1675. Before the revolution, controversies between the colonies, concerning the extent of their rights of soil, territory, jurisdiction, and boundary, under their respective charters, were heard and determined before the king in council, who exercised original jurisdiction therein, upon the principles of feudal sovereignty. This jurisdiction was often practically asserted, as in the case of the dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, decided by the privy council, in 1679; and in the case of the dispute between New Hampshire and New York, in 1764. Lord Hardwicke recognised this appellate jurisdiction in the most deliberate manner, in the great case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore. The same necessity, which gave rise to it in our colonial state, must continue to operate through all future time [emphasis added]. Some tribunal, exercising such authority, is essential to prevent an appeal to the sword, and a dissolution of the government. That it ought to be established under the national, rather than under the state, government; or, to speak more properly, that it can be safely established under the former only, would seem to be a position self-evident, and requiring no reasoning to support it. It may justly be presumed, that under the national government in all controversies of this sort, the decision will be impartially made according to the principles of justice; and all the usual and most effectual precautions are taken to secure this impartiality, by confiding it to the highest judicial tribunal." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1, 1833.

The bottom line imo is that the misguided Supreme Court wrongly pulled the "no standing" card when it decided not to hear allegations of ballot box fraud concerning the 2020 elections.

All that being said, Democratic and Republican Trump-supporters are reminded that the next major political event in the U.S. is not reelecting hopeful Trump 47 for a second time, but when Trump-supporting patriots primary ALL state and federal lawmakers and executives in 2024 primaries, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company, Jordan (and others?).

After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.

Trump can endorse candidates from lists that patriots who respect the federal government's constitutionally limited powers provide for him, as long as candidates are not incumbents, candidates also promising to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A) after they win office.

Consider the repealing of 16&17A as reparations for taxpayers for having to pay unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.

The definition of insanity is reelecting your beloved career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting those same politicians to find remedies for unconstitutional government policies every time.

Patriots, let's not allow ourselves to be fooled for third time in 2024 by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.

Finally, as a side note to this post, consider that probably the main reason that we hear media complaints about the electoral college is the following.

The electoral college is now the only thing stopping the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments from permanently establishing a puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.

36 posted on 10/25/2023 3:09:05 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: frank ballenger
I have to live for something other than revenge and schadenfreude but I accept my limitations and faults today.

I've got a 12 year old Scotch that will second your sentiments.

It is terrible to go "nahnahnah' but I can not help myself.

37 posted on 10/25/2023 4:02:57 PM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: USS Alaska

Have fun with the Scotch.

I am a teetotaler myself. Part of why I’m not happy.


38 posted on 10/25/2023 4:11:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I like his sense of humor and wit. Using Sheila JL today in his speech was timely. Wish I coulda seen her face.


39 posted on 10/25/2023 6:17:15 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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To: Red Badger

This will change everything, we are really winning now!


40 posted on 10/25/2023 7:06:19 PM PDT by BusterDog
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